All of her daughter's presents were hiding in the trunk of their white Buick.

"I couldn't let her see her presents, so I took them on post to have them wrapped. So they were all in the trunk of my car."

The gifts were tucked away out of plain sight of thieves. She even parked towards the front of the parking lot where she knew the surveillance cameras would be watching...but it still wasn't enough.

"I'm surprised it was stolen, especially with all the cameras out there," Vanessa said.

Worst of all, she says the car she relied on to get her to work every day didn't have full coverage because she didn't think she needed it on a old '92 Buick.

"Go steal a Lexus or something. My car's old not worth anything."

And with at eight least surveillance cameras recording 24 hours a day, Vanessa thought at the very least the robbers would be caught on tape. But when she asked store managers at Wal-Mart, she says they knew nothing about it.

"They're like, 'We're sorry to hear that, but we don't have any information.'"

Out of luck and out of hope on a day that's supposed to be filled with brightness.

Wal-Mart managers tell News 12 their parking lots are treated as public parking; therefore they are not liable for damages or stolen vehicles on their property.

The Wal-Mart on Dean's Bridge has outside security and a Richmond County sheriff's sub-station inside the store.

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